I've created a Custom Macro Patch that is similar to the RSS Feed, but
adds a "Duration" input that causes the RSS Feed to refresh after the
specified time.
I threw it together for an information display that needed to be
updated quickly at an event. The safari update times were too long,
but I noticed that If I specified a new URL for the RSS Feed module it
would initiate a new download of the information. So all I needed a
way to change the URL string without really changing where the RSS
Feed was pointing.
So what I hacked together was a function that adds a nonsense GET
variable onto the URL string called "temp", and set it as the value of
a counter. Every web server that I've tried it on so far will just
ignore the GET variable when it receives the request, but when the
counter changes, the RSS Feed is refreshed in Quartz Composer.
For example, when you feed in
"http://www.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss";, the URL string
input for the RSS Feed patch really is
"http://www.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss?temp=1";, then
"http://www.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss?temp=2";, then
"http://www.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss?temp=3";, etc.
Not very pretty, but it works. I'm open to improvements.
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Eric J. Klooster (ejk):: Software Engineer
ericklooster <at> gmail.com :: http://ejk.pointclark.net
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